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Pilatus Crashes – No Smoking Gun

Our search of NTSB data for accidents involving the Pilatus PC-12 series airplanes turned up only 23 since the first was reported in 2001-and four were in countries outside the U.S. With so little data, there was no basis for forming any opinions about areas of concern.

Our search of NTSB data for accidents involving the Pilatus PC-12 series airplanes turned up only 23 since the first was reported in 2001—and four were in countries outside the U.S. With so little data, there was no basis for forming any opinions about areas of concern.

We did note that five accidents involved loss of control inflight, all in IMC. Having flown the airplane a few times, we have been impressed with its ease of handling, so we’re curious about the circumstances and the pilots in those events.